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To: jttmab who wrote (87965)	3/30/2003 1:33:29 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>You haven't answered the question.<< Rumsfeld does answer that particular question. What he says is that the answer is unknowable. There is no way to know the answer, and it would not be helpful to speculate. CB@are_we_there_yet_are_we_there_yet.com

To: jttmab who wrote (87965)	3/30/2003 5:58:37 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I am myself amazed at the lack of the news media insistence in pinning the War proponents to a time frame I'm struck by that as well, though we shouldn't be surprised. How many "debates" and "press conferences" have we seen in our lives where the question was never answered and no one had the balls to say...You haven't answered the question. Why should questions like this be answered? Do you think the folks running the war should announce their war plans and expected time frame?

To: jttmab who wrote (87965)	3/31/2003 2:19:17 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

How many "debates" and "press conferences" have we seen in our lives where the question was never answered and no one had the balls to say...You haven't answered the question. What a silly question. How exact do you expect the answer to be? At best the answer is going to be a fairly big range. Name one circumstance in any past war where the combatants accurately predicted the time duration of the war. After all, if the combatants could accurately predict the duration (and by definition the outcome) there would be darn few wars. War is, in engineering speak, a very non-linear event. A small change can have big consequences and vice versa. Non-linear systems are notoriously difficult to predict. Imagine if we had killed Sadam and his sons in that first strike. The war would have been over in a day. Or imagine that one significant Iraqi general turns tomorrow, ... . It is very unpredictable. Clark